[gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Hi there!

I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host 
in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should 
open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.

The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming 
phone calls. At the moment I just set the DISPLAY variable and open an 
xterm displaying the message, but that involves using xhost, and is not 
that sophisticated. KDE can be assumed to be running on all the systems.

There is the Winpopup plugin for kopete 
(<http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+Winpopup>), which 
makes it respond to messages sent via NET SEND from a Windows host, or 
smbclient -M from a linux host. But it does not seem to be enabled by 
default. kopete has a use flag (winpopup), but I am using monolithic 
ebuilds, and kdenetwork does not know about it. Could this be a bug to 
report?
Anyway, there would be some more problems with that. smbclient -M takes a 
few seconds until it sends, I would need to find the cause first. And I 
assume that kopete would display a little notification in the taskbar 
first, which must be clicked at, while I want a window to open immediately. 

Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone 
knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting 
for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an 
xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.

	Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Randy Barlow]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Any ideas?
>   

If you are already using Kopete, why not just use an instant message 
service like AIM or Jabber or another?

R
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Mick]

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On Monday 02 July 2007 21:20, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host
> in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should
> open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.
>
> The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming
> phone calls. At the moment I just set the DISPLAY variable and open an
> xterm displaying the message, but that involves using xhost, and is not
> that sophisticated. KDE can be assumed to be running on all the systems.
>
> There is the Winpopup plugin for kopete
> (<http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+Winpopup>), which
> makes it respond to messages sent via NET SEND from a Windows host, or
> smbclient -M from a linux host. But it does not seem to be enabled by
> default. kopete has a use flag (winpopup), but I am using monolithic
> ebuilds, and kdenetwork does not know about it. Could this be a bug to
> report?
> Anyway, there would be some more problems with that. smbclient -M takes a
> few seconds until it sends, I would need to find the cause first. And I
> assume that kopete would display a little notification in the taskbar
> first, which must be clicked at, while I want a window to open immediately.
>
> Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone
> knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting
> for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an
> xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.

Will this do?

http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Randy Barlow writes:

> If you are already using Kopete, why not just use an instant message
> service like AIM or Jabber or another?

I thought about that, too. But as I wrote I would prefer a window to open, 
instead of having a little notification in he taskbar that kopete received 
a message, which I have to klick at.

Beides, I often have trouble with my accounts, they go offline from time to 
time, and I have to restart them manually. I want something that works all 
the time. Okay, I could set up my own jabber server just for that, but that 
seems to be a little exaggerated. And I would need to find out how to send 
a message via command line, too.

	Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host
> in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should
> open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.

yes. it is known als 'talk'. For decades.



>
> Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone
> knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting
> for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an
> xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.
>

yes. emerge -s talk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Hemmann, Volker Armin writes:

> On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:

> > I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another
> > host in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A
> > window should open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.
>
> yes. it is known als 'talk'. For decades.

I know about talk, but usually this sends an invitation first, which the 
user must respond to. And I want a window to open immediately. Besides, the 
invitation appears in one of the many open terminals, I had to seach a 
while until I found the right one :)

I just tried ktalk, didn't knwo about that before. It opens a console in 
talk mode when accepting an invitation (but again I have to accept it 
first), but nothing happens in it, the graphics does not get updated, I see 
my desktop in the window.

	Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Randy Barlow]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Any ideas?

How about Zephyr then?  http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?vid=635

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to user@host in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Mick writes:

> Will this do?
>
> http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php

Yes! Thanks, this looks nice. It minimizes into the tray, and opens as 
window when a message arrives (if configured so). I think I will be using 
it.

I first had a little problem because of a five-second delay with 
smbclient -M, but I solved it by enabling WINS support in smb.conf.

I like it, thanks again!

	Alex
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